Investigated a midden on the commuter train as I went into town for a doom metal gig.
- Untouched WW2 resistance arms cache found in a cave near Bergen. Sadly no archaeological involvement. Everything dealt with by police explosives experts.
- Greek Western heroine: Kalamata Jane.
- So annoying when people write about patently incorrect beliefs held in the past or in far parts of the world as “knowledge”.
- They’re going to drill cores of the limestone that fills the dino killer crater and look at what happened after the impact.
- A car is a device that allows you to charge your phone using petroleum products.
- Now I’ve seen all Östergötland’s sites with visible remains of Medieval fortifications plus a selection of sites with Medieval house foundations in naturally defensible locations.
- Put an umbo on your shield — like a boss!
- I just applied for docentur, roughly equivalent to Dr. Habil. My 31-page application letter includes the chair’s recommendation letter and the certificate I got from the supervision course last week. The former chairman of the committee that hands out the docentur told me recently that under these conditions, the docentur badge is never refused.
- Refused to install the Chromecast dongle in the TV. Pointed out that you don’t need a willy to be able to do that. Wife & Jrette went to it and soon proved me correct.
- I’m not entirely sure, because these organisations change their names and merge and shit. But it seems that I will be receiving pension money from seven different schemes. The way things are going so far, it will add up to abject poverty.
- Billy Preston who plays on several tracks on Let It Be was a gay black survivor of childhood sex abuse.
- If I was a member of The Band I would be completely incapable of refraining from telling my wife that I wanted to make Music From Little Pink with her.
- One of my excavation volunteers just bailed. I used a die from my 1984 copy of Swedish Runequest to determine who gets the slot.
- Do all academics understand that a large part of what a paper’s citation index measures is how eager scholars are to be friends with the author? Nothing improves the apparent importance of your work like you making head of department.
- Two pairs of terms that I can’t tell apart internally: anorexia vs. bulimia, and pedagogy vs. didactics.
- Funny with group photos where people are leaning drunkenly on each other despite the frame being way outside them.
- Junior made an interesting find in the current EU rules for ecological food (p. 11). “… chemically synthesised allopathic veterinary medicinal products including antibiotics may be used where necessary and under strict conditions, when the use of phytotherapeutic, homeopathic and other products is inappropriate.” “Allopathic” means “real science-based” in the alternative argot. “Phytotherapeutic” means “of healing herbs”. “Homeopathic” means “of sugar pills with water on them”. What “other products” might mean is anyone’s guess.
- Movie: Ex Machina. Young software engineer is tasked to test an AI. But who is testing whom? And why is there so much gratuitous young-female-only nudity? Grade: Pass.
- Walter the Peruvian car mechanic informs me that the dramatic banging noise from the front right wheel on the car was due to a spindle arm on its way to breakdown.
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Investigated a midden on the commuter train as I went into town for a doom metal gig.
- Untouched WW2 resistance arms cache found in a cave near Bergen. Sadly no archaeological involvement. Everything dealt with by police explosives experts.
- Greek Western heroine: Kalamata Jane.
- So annoying when people write about patently incorrect beliefs held in the past or in far parts of the world as “knowledge”.
- They’re going to drill cores of the limestone that fills the dino killer crater and look at what happened after the impact.
- A car is a device that allows you to charge your phone using petroleum products.
- Now I’ve seen all Östergötland’s sites with visible remains of Medieval fortifications plus a selection of sites with Medieval house foundations in naturally defensible locations.
- Put an umbo on your shield — like a boss!
- I just applied for docentur, roughly equivalent to Dr. Habil. My 31-page application letter includes the chair’s recommendation letter and the certificate I got from the supervision course last week. The former chairman of the committee that hands out the docentur told me recently that under these conditions, the docentur badge is never refused.
- Refused to install the Chromecast dongle in the TV. Pointed out that you don’t need a willy to be able to do that. Wife & Jrette went to it and soon proved me correct.
- I’m not entirely sure, because these organisations change their names and merge and shit. But it seems that I will be receiving pension money from seven different schemes. The way things are going so far, it will add up to abject poverty.
- Billy Preston who plays on several tracks on Let It Be was a gay black survivor of childhood sex abuse.
- If I was a member of The Band I would be completely incapable of refraining from telling my wife that I wanted to make Music From Little Pink with her.
- One of my excavation volunteers just bailed. I used a die from my 1984 copy of Swedish Runequest to determine who gets the slot.
- Do all academics understand that a large part of what a paper’s citation index measures is how eager scholars are to be friends with the author? Nothing improves the apparent importance of your work like you making head of department.
- Two pairs of terms that I can’t tell apart internally: anorexia vs. bulimia, and pedagogy vs. didactics.
- Funny with group photos where people are leaning drunkenly on each other despite the frame being way outside them.
- Junior made an interesting find in the current EU rules for ecological food (p. 11). “… chemically synthesised allopathic veterinary medicinal products including antibiotics may be used where necessary and under strict conditions, when the use of phytotherapeutic, homeopathic and other products is inappropriate.” “Allopathic” means “real science-based” in the alternative argot. “Phytotherapeutic” means “of healing herbs”. “Homeopathic” means “of sugar pills with water on them”. What “other products” might mean is anyone’s guess.
- Movie: Ex Machina. Young software engineer is tasked to test an AI. But who is testing whom? And why is there so much gratuitous young-female-only nudity? Grade: Pass.
- Walter the Peruvian car mechanic informs me that the dramatic banging noise from the front right wheel on the car was due to a spindle arm on its way to breakdown.
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